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"The Impact of Color in the Built Environment"
Author: Julie Braam, NCIDQ, IIDA, WELL AP, and John Campbell, AIA, RIBA, LEED AP
Published In: Facilities Manager
Date: July/August 2022

Color and the feelings it evokes have long played an integral role in designing innovative and engaging spaces. The strategic use and placement of warm and cool tones, coupled with complementary patterns and textures, creates opportunities to silently promote messages or elicit a certain emotion. Architecture and design firms are continuing to peel back the basic layers of color theory to understand the psychological implications different shades and hues can have on our thoughts and feelings.

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